Barr v. Johnson

Birdsong, Chief Judge.

The appellant Sarah Laverne Barr filed a legal malpractice action against attorney Johnson in two counts, tort and breach of contract. He, in answering, filed his own expert affidavit of competence, and also filed a motion to dismiss and motion for summary judgment, which the trial court granted before the plaintiff had been able fully to pursue her discovery rights.

She appeals on several grounds: that the grant of summary judgment wrongly usurped her discovery rights; that the trial court abused its discretion in denying her the right to file a counter motion pursuant…